This book probes occluded depictions of queerness in early English drama, ranging from medieval morality plays to Reformation interludes and beyond.

Introduction: Quem Quaeritis? Queerness in Early English Drama

Part One: Queer Theories and Themes of Early English Drama

1. A Subjunctive Theory of Dramatic Queerness

2. Themes of Friendship and Sodomy

Part Two: Queer Readings of Early English Drama

3. Performative Typology, Jewish Genders, and Jesus’s Queer Romance in the York Corpus Christi Plays

4. Excremental Desire, Queer Allegory, and the Disidentified Audience of Mankind

5. Sodomy, Chastity, and Queer Historiography in John Bale’s Interludes

6. Camp and the Hermaphroditic Gaze in Sir David Lyndsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis

Conclusion: Theatrical Medievalisms, Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi, and the Queer Legacy of Early English Drama

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